Forestry EduTrainer Erasmus Project

Project Title

Forestry EduTrainer

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

The Forestry EduTrainer project created the first European training for forestry trainers.

I/ Background
The project was born from a survey conducted at European level on the forestry trainers’ qualification. Its results allowed the project partners to draw a situational analysis of forestry training in Europe : forestry trainers with comparable profiles ( technical experts who turned to training at one point in their career), diversity in their trainer training ( or absence of specific training), a need to gain more pedagogical and/or methodological competences.

The consequences of such a situation: no worker mobility, national ( or binational) training framework, lack of capacities to transmit competences efficiently linked to a shortage of pedagogical/methodological competences, aggravation of forestry work dangerousness.

II/ Objectives
To solve this problem, Forestry EduTrainer created 6 Intellectual Outputs for the creation of a specific training for forestry trainers, efficient, shared and laid on good practices. These Intellectual Outputs followed the usual order for creating a new training:
– Creation of the Competence Standard
– Creation of the Training Standard
– Elaboration of the training course divided in modules and subobjectives.
– Work on the way to deliver the training: transfer of the training course onto a learning platform and creation of digital materials
– Experimenting with the training, and training of the future trainers on this training: the EduCoaches
– Ensuring the sustainability of the training course and its future development

III/ Partnership and participants
The Forestry EduTrainer project was lead by 7 well-known organisations in Europe in the wood and training sectors:
– Le Centre Forestier de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, coordinateur
– Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya, Espagne
– Kuratorium Fur Waldarbeit Und Forsttechnik (KWF) GMBH, Allemagne
– Landerbetrieb Forst Brandenburg/Waldarbeitsschule Kunsterspring, Allemagne
– Natuurinvest, Belgique
– Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, Italie
– Jyväskylän koulutuskuntayhtymä, Finlande

Each of these organisations dedicated to the project experts in forestry training and/or blended-learning, project managers and technicians in charge of the translation of the training course.

Also took part to the project and the experimentation of the Forestry EduTrainer course a total of 31 forestry trainers coming from 6 European countries.

Finally, the multiplier events organised by all project partners allowed to target more than 150 people
coming or not from the forestry sector or from partners’ countries, potential future trainees on the course thanks to the organisation of events held face-to-face or online.

IV/ Activities
The Forestry EduTrainer partners realised 6 Intellectual Outputs by creating and disseminating divers’ surveys and through intense research, and by sharing their knowledge.

During the 3 and a half years of the project (prorogation due to the pandemic), the project partners met 18 times, whether online or during transnational meetings.

A total of 7 experimental trainings were organised, whether or not funded at European level. They allowed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the training course and work on their solving.

Finally, 11 multiplier events were held.

V/ Results, impacts and benefits at long-term
The Forestry EduTrainer project has thus succeeded in creating the first European training for Forestry trainers and in ensuring its sustainability.

The training answers the needs identified in the situational analysis, by offering to the forestry trainers a singular training in Europe created thanks to collective intelligence and good practices, et mainly focused on the pedagogy and methodology needed in forestry training.

The Forestry EduTrainer training is proposed by recognised organisations at national and European level, which will provide it at European scale and work towards its improvement through the sustainability strategy worked upon. Many trainers and/or forestry training organisations have already expressed their interest in the Forestry EduTrainer training.

At mid and long-term, the benefits of Forestry EduTrainer will be a better qualification of forestry trainers as well as trainings of higher quality, thus permitting more efficiency and work quality in the next-to-be forestry professionals as well as a diminution of the number and gravity of accidents.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 399108 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre Forestier de la région Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg/Waldarbeitsschule Kunsterspring
• KURATORIUM FUR WALDARBEIT UND FORSTTECHNIK KWF EV*KFW
• NATUURINVEST
• CONSORCI CENTRE DE CIENCIA I TECNOLOGIA FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA
• JYVASKYLAN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA
• KURATORIUM FUR WALDARBEIT UND FORSTTECHNIK (KWF) GMBH
• SCUOLA AGRARIA DEL PARCO DI MONZA